Efficient reuse of waste energy

Author

Yao, Da-Jeng ; Yeh, Ke-jyun ; Hsu, Cheng-ting ; Yu, Ben-mou ; Lee, Jinn-shing

Author_Institution

Univ. of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Volume

3

Issue

2

fYear

2009

fDate

6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

28

Lastpage

33

Abstract

Ecological awareness is all important for our environment. How to transfer the waste heat to electric power from exhaust pipes is discussed, which might serve to decrease the consumption of petroleum. We have presented a model of a thermal resistor network to estimate the power generated with thermoelectric generator (TEG) modules and investigated a concept of harvesting waste heat with TEG in automobile applications. To apply the high performance of new nanocrystalline TE materials into the developed TEG module would be very important for the automobiles in future.

Keywords

Waste heat; automobiles; exhaust systems; nanostructured materials; thermoelectric conversion; alternative energy; automobile applications; electric power; energy utilization; exhaust pipes; nanocrystalline materials; thermal resistor network model; thermoelectric power generator; waste energy reuse; waste heat harvesting; Automobiles; Biological system modeling; Heat transfer; Nanostructured materials; Petroleum; Power generation; Resistors; Thermal resistance; Thermoelectricity; Waste heat;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nanotechnology Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1932-4510

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MNANO.2009.932420

Filename

5036188